May 2016 Babies

First walking shoes...help!

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ashrimpton wrote:

My LO is a true Florida gal, in her mind clothes and shoes are truly optional. She'd spend all her time basically naked on the beach haha Well she's not too far away from testing out walking and we need to start wearing shoes.

Anyone have luck with certain ones? She really prefers to have nothing on her feet, I can't keep socks on her for more than a second.

I'm going on a mission this weekend to find some for my son. All I can say is that the soft bottom ones are slippery on hard surfaces. We found out that hard way. Target has a line of stride rite that I was going to try. You might want lace ups so you can double knot them rather than velcro.

They really need to be barefoot when first starting to walk, unless outside or at a public place. They use their toes to help grip and balance,shoes prevent them from doing that. I use pedi-peas or livie&luca soft soles. They allow optimal movement/grip without slipping.

By far the very best walking shoes available are Pedipads. Recommendations are that babies learn to walk barefoot, unfortunately that's not always safe.

We live in a cold climate (Maine) and no shoes are a NO GO. I came across the Pedipads brand when I was living in Hawaii with my 3rd baby now eight years old. Walking barefoot there is great if it's in the grass but if I took him anywhere he needed some sort of sandals or something to keep his feet from burning on the pavement or stepping in something that is quite gross. These shoes were developed be a podiatrists just for baby feet!! I don't mean to sound like a commercial but I love the shoes! And it's all I have bought for my little boys now ages 8, 6 and now nine months! They have two websites ones in outlet! The main one is

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